Company Acquires Air America Fuel & Services
Officials with Million Air announced
Tuesday the company recently acquired Air America Fuel &
Services at the Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake,
WA. The terminal will begin official operations as Million Air
Moses Lake on January 1, 2009.
Freeman Holdings of Washington, LLC, which also owns five other
Million Air facilities throughout the nation, acquired the terminal
in November. Renovations are planned to incorporate Million Air's
standard first-class amenities.
"We are very excited about the opportunity to have an
established aviation company such as Million Air locate at the
airport," said Delone Krueger, president of the board of
commissioners of the Port of Moses Lake. "Its services will attract
new business and revenues for the airport and the community. Being
in the high desert of the Columbia Basin in central Washington,
Grant County International Airport offers the general aviation
pilot an average of 360 days of VFR weather a year."
Million Air Moses Lake will seek some of this new business from
commercial, cargo and corporate aircraft returning from Asian
airports. Located within a foreign trade zone, Grant County
International Airport is a designated port of entry, with a United
States Customs and Border and Protection Office on the field. This
provides commercial, cargo and corporate travelers an alternative
port of entry from other congested ports.
Freeman Holdings will also continue its efforts to secure and
maintain a Defense Energy Support Center government fueling
contract. This contract has proven beneficial to Million Air and
its surrounding communities in other markets.
Million Air Moses Lake will serve and support Japan Airlines and
its B-747 flight crew training center located at the airport. Japan
Airlines has been training at Moses Lake for more than 40
years.
The facility will also support various Boeing flight tests and
certification programs. Boeing is expected to move several 787
Dreamliners to Grant County International Airport, and the
Dreamliner certification program is scheduled to begin in early
2009.
Million Air, one of the largest private aviation service
companies in the world, provides executive airplane terminal
services and upscale private charter. Headquartered in Houston, the
company operates a network of more than 30 facilities in the United
States, Canada, France and the Caribbean.